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Garth Crooks Compares Sead Kolasinac To A Toilet After Fine Performance Vs Chelsea

Mikey Traynor
By Mikey Traynor
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There's rarely a dull moment when the BBC ask Garth Crooks to sit down and name his Premier League team of the week, as if he hasn't picked a wild formation and played several players out of position, he's prone to saying something mad.

This week, with a sensible 3-4-3 being his chosen setup the madness was going to have to be found elsewhere, and sure enough it was in the way in which Crooks describe Arsenal's summer signing Sead Kolasinac.

The Bosnia & Herzegovina international was one of Arsenal's better performers as they left Stamford Bridge with a point, and while he didn't get his name on the scoresheet or provide an assist, his toughness was what Garth Crooks was really impressed by.

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After Kolasinac didn't back down from a crunching tackle from David Luiz - which saw the Chelsea man sent off - and then continued to finish the match, Crooks compared the wing-back to a pre-World War II brick public toilet you'd see in London.

Sead Kolasinac is built like one of those North London brick toilets that withstood bombing raids during the Second World War.

Even after the most awful tackle by my defender of the year last season, David Luiz, he rose to his feet determined to finish the game.

The way Luiz overran the ball in an attempt to draw Kolasinac into the challenge left me in no doubt that the Chelsea defender knew exactly what he was doing. In my view, he wanted a piece of Kolasinac.

In my playing days, both men would have received a standing ovation for a tackle like that - Luiz for throwing down the gauntlet and Kolasinac for accepting it.

Even though the Arsenal defender came off worst, the impressive Bosnia-Herzegovina international finished the game and with it earned a moral victory.

Superb.

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It really is a beautiful way to describe a tough, stocky defender and while it may not sound like the most complimentary thing to say - what footballer wants to be compared to a toilet after all? - it's a sign that he's making a mark at The Emirates instead.

Aside from claiming that Burnley's Nick Pope looked like a Champions League calibre goalkeeper for his performance at Arsenal, and suggesting that Mourinho should have kept Wayne Rooney around because he still has goals in him, this was one of Crooks' more unanimously agreeable teams of the week.

You can check the team, and Crooks' comments, in full over on BBC.com.

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